Jeff Tamarkin on May 18, 2019
Branford Marsalis plays with Dead & Company at LOCKN’ Festival 2018 (photo by John Patrick Gatta) The longtime New Orleans ambassador to jam-nation steps out with a new studio album just in time for Jazz Fest. Ask most artists to explain the meaning of an album title, and you’ll likely get a long, drawn-out dissertation […]
Dean Budnick on May 16, 2019
“The Soul Queen of New Orleans” looks back on her Jazz Fest legacy. “I have not missed performing at a Jazz Fest since my first one in 1974.” At that time, Irma Thomas, a New Orleans native, was living in California, where she moved after Hurricane Camille destroyed many of the clubs that she regularly […]
May 13, 2019
Check out the Artist Samplers from our April/May Issue. The combined playlist streams on Spotify: CD SAMPLER TRACKS Galactic “Clap Your Hands” ft. Miss Charm Taylor From the album Already Ready Already Tchoup-zilla Records / Thirty Tigers Galactic’s Already Ready Already sees the NOLA band take a contemporary approach to their progressive sound, interpolating […]
